caa a22 4500 397547692 CHVBK 20180308164742.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199609 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/heapro/11.3.193 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/heapro/11.3.193 Impact of oral health education on primary school children before and after teachers' training in Tanzania [Elektronische Daten] [URSULINE NYANDINDI, ANNELI MILÉN, TUIJA PALIN-PALOKAS, VALERIE ROBISON] Oral health education is part of the primary school curriculum in Tanzania. However, most of the teachers responsible for it lack training and motivation for the task. Their oral health education sessions are deficient in content and in methods, only addressing oral hygiene by lectures. Thus, modified oral health education was designed and teacher training workshops were carried out in one district by a dental team in liaison with school administrators. After training, the teachers taught a variety of oral health issues and pupils actively studied the concepts and practical skills for dietary choices and toothbrushing. This report describes the impact of oral health education given by teachers before and after they had been trained in the workshops. The impact of the sessions was assessed as changes in the pupils' oral health knowledge, attitudes and practices. Three random samples, each with 200 pupils, including conventional and modified session groups and a reference group not given oral health education at school, were interviewed and examined. The group that received modified oral health education had better knowledge of oral health, reported reduced consumption of sugary foods and increased toothbrushing frequency, and had better ‘mswaki' (chewing-stick) making skills and slightly improved oral hygiene; in comparison with the referents. The group with conventional oral health education had some what better oral health knowledge but their practices were no better than the referents'. The results emphasize the need for providing training, guidance and feedback to implementors of oral health education programmes. © Oxford University Press Original papers nationallicence impact nationallicence oral health education nationallicence schools nationallicence Tanzania nationallicence NYANDINDI URSULINE Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry, University of Dar es Salaam Tanzania aut MILÉN ANNELI Health and Development Cooperation Group, National Agency for Welfare and Health in Finland Helsinki, Finland aut PALIN-PALOKAS TUIJA Department of Preventive Dentistry and Cariology, University of Kuopio Finland aut ROBISON VALERIE Department of Dental Ecology, University of North Carolina USA aut Health Promotion International Oxford University Press 11/3(1996-09), 193-201 0957-4824 11:3<193 1996 11 heapro https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/11.3.193 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/11.3.193 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- NYANDINDI URSULINE Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry, University of Dar es Salaam Tanzania aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- MILÉN ANNELI Health and Development Cooperation Group, National Agency for Welfare and Health in Finland Helsinki, Finland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- PALIN-PALOKAS TUIJA Department of Preventive Dentistry and Cariology, University of Kuopio Finland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- ROBISON VALERIE Department of Dental Ecology, University of North Carolina USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Health Promotion International Oxford University Press 11/3(1996-09), 193-201 0957-4824 11:3<193 1996 11 heapro Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford